Antiquity and Loyalist Dissent in Revolutionary America, 1765-1776 av Daniel R. Moy

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<p>This book explores how the loyalist rebuttal to the American patriot movement during the decade leading up to 1776 derived much of its inspiration and rationale from the literature of the Greco-Roman world¿the same repository of classical ideas and principles the patriots coopted to persuade their fellow countrymen to disavow the English crown and pursue independence. Although previous histories have described how the ideas of the ancient Mediterranean, transmitted through the Renaissance and Enlightenment writers, were important¿even vital¿to the revolutionary movement, few questions have been raised in the historiography concerning the loyalists¿ political motivations and actions with respect to the ancient literary canon.<br/>This study sheds new light on the pre-revolutionary controversy and pamphlet war in the colonies, examining those ideological currents, derived from antiquity, that informed both radical and conservative responses to the transat